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RE: Do the People that get in early on "Steemit" have an advantage and if so is that fair?
I have a somewhat related question... I see some posts with 2 votes and no replies with like $50 whereas other posts like this one have actual conversations and are still at $0.00. Why is that? Are early-adopters given more weight in their posts or something? I feel like that would be a little unfair, where people who are early-adopters with more steem-power are able to make exponentially more going forward, while everyone else is making practically nothing for similar/better quality posts. I like Steem so hopefully I'm just missing the point here. Am I?
The initial poster put little thought into his post and he is contributing no new understanding or information or any new viewpoint to me. I therefore replied to his post, but did not vote for him. I did vote for dantheman's reply because it was thoughtful and informative.
I agree that the original post is lousy -- it's not well written or proofread. We should demand better for upvotes. However, if it had been a better looking post, I would certainly have upvoted it because @joelinux's question is a very good one. Many people coming here and seeing Steemit for the first time are asking something similar in their own minds.
Even if you are upvoting Dan, I believe the original poster shares in that; even a careless post can trigger a robust conversation!
Huh, still very confused over here but at least I know that I enjoy using it, even if I have no idea how it works.
I like your attitude!
That $ is determined by the users who vote for the post and how much steem power those voters have. The user that created the post shouldn't make any difference.
Just saw this. Okay that makes a lot more sense then. Thanks!
Ok, to try to understand how this works better, I opened the Rich List and compared those voting for some of the posts on this page to their Vests balance. The two highest $ value posts each only had 3 votes, but were both voted on by an individual with over 3000 million vests. Whereas the original post had more votes (11) but the total Vests of all who voted was less than 600 million Vests. My vote by the way doesn't add any value to a post since I have less than 0.2 million Vests. I checked.
Still, not sure why one of the two highest $ posts is about 50% higher than the other since there is no significant difference in the total Vests held by those voting . Nor is the higher value post significantly older than the lower value reply. Unless replies to posts are counted as less valuable even though they have the same amount of Vests voting for them.
Check out these posts and conversations on how voting works, rewards are calculated and how to maximize your income: